Word: slenderness
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...members for highest honors and presents him with a medal established in 1902 in memory of John Fritz, iron and steel pioneer. It has given the Fritz medal to Lord Kelvin (transatlantic cables), George Westinghouse (air brakes), Alexander Graham Bell (telephones). Last week it designated a slender little man from whose brain have sprung electric arc lights, electric carriages, gyroscopes, super-search-lights, compound Diesel engines. It named Elmer Ambrose Sperry and specifically recognized his "development of the gyrocompass and the application of the gyroscope to the stabilization of ships and airplanes...
...short, frail-seeming, slender Chinese took national bulk and stature last week as the War Lord presumptive of half China. Within the space of two full moons his armies have swarmed up from the . South Chinese Bolshevik region of Canton and overwhelmed the whole Central Chinese Yangtze valley. Before he left Canton, War Lord Chang Kai-shek prophesied that he would capture the great industrial city of Wuchang on the Yangtze in time to celebrate there the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of the Chinese Republican Revolution. The city fell (TIME, Oct. 18) on the very day prophesied by Chang...
Lady Willingdon, brunette, in-clined to plumpness, presented the purser with a diamond stickpin, "on account of the trouble we have given on the way over." Viscount Willingdon, slender, a head taller than his wife, chatted before debarking with Premier King who had come on board as the ship entered the harbor...
...evening last week, Mr. Calisch sat at his usual table in his usual cafeteria. In came a slender figure in a serge coat and grey "bellbottom" trousers, with a cap pulled so far down over the cadaverous face that only the high hooked nose of Emanuel Silberstein showed out from beneath. Moving up behind his old tutor, the youth raised a squat hammer (a cobbler's) and beat upon the bowed white skull. James Calisch was unconscious, his cranium crushed beyond repair, before other patrons could seize Student Silberstein...
...stir last year when its authors, Composer Deems Taylor and Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, were commissioned to contrive an all-native opera. The music is finished; Deems Taylor is in Europe. And last week came news that, despite the ravages of a long illness, the pale and slender young librettist had finished a first draft of her end of the work. She had begun it in her Greenwich Village home ("narrowest house in Manhattan"), abandoned it during a breakdown, lately brought it to completion at a retreat in the woods of Maine. A lightsome, fanciful opera this Henchman will...